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2004 BRFSS Survey Results: Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes Counties

Health Care Cost/Under Insurance

About how much money does your household pay monthly for health insurance premiums
(this would include any amount your household pays for health insurance either directly or taken out of paychecks)?*

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  Total
Respond.^
No cost <$100 $100-$299 $300-$499 $500+
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 12,206 2,784 20.9 20.1-21.8 4,692 40.0 38.9-41.2 2,945 23.8 22.8-24.7 1,240 10.5 9.8-11.2 545 4.8 4.3- 5.3
-Alleghany/Ashe/Avery/Watagua/Wilkes 300 70 21.9 16.9-27.8 123 44.3 37.1-51.7 60 19.3 14.5-25.1 28 8.8 5.9-13.0 19 5.8 3.6- 9.4
GENDER
Male 112 24 19.2 12.2-28.9 53 50.1 38.3-61.9 20 18.3 11.2-28.3 12 9.3 5.0-16.7 3 3.2 1.0- 9.5
Female 188 46 24.6 18.4-31.9 70 38.3 31.0-46.2 40 20.3 14.8-27.0 16 8.3 5.0-13.6 16 8.5 5.2-13.8
RACE
White 283 66 23.2 18.0-29.2 115 41.7 35.3-48.4 59 20.6 15.8-26.5 25 8.2 5.4-12.4 18 6.3 3.8-10.2
Other 16 4 12.2 3.0-38.5 8 65.2 33.2-87.6 1 9.1 1.2-45.4 3 13.5 3.6-39.9 0 0.0 . - .
AGE
18-44 111 30 26.6 18.3-37.1 48 42.8 32.6-53.5 22 20.2 12.7-30.5 7 6.3 2.8-13.7 4 4.1 1.4-10.9
45+ 189 40 18.9 13.3-26.2 75 45.2 35.6-55.1 38 18.7 13.1-26.0 21 10.3 6.5-16.1 15 6.9 4.0-11.7
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 170 39 21.0 14.8-29.0 71 46.6 36.6-57.0 39 21.3 14.8-29.7 13 7.1 3.9-12.6 8 4.0 1.9- 8.2
Some College + 130 31 23.1 15.8-32.4 52 40.8 31.7-50.7 21 16.3 10.5-24.6 15 11.3 6.6-18.8 11 8.5 4.4-15.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 195 48 20.8 15.2-27.9 85 48.1 38.9-57.5 35 18.0 12.3-25.5 18 9.3 5.7-15.0 9 3.7 1.9- 7.3
$50,000+ 51 14 28.3 17.2-42.8 14 25.4 15.2-39.3 12 24.1 13.8-38.5 4 8.6 2.9-22.7 7 13.7 6.2-27.7

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*Asked only of respondents who reported having some type of health insurance.

^Use caution in interpreting percentages with a numerator of less than 20. N = numerator, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

** Northeast NC I: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Northampton, and Warren counties.
Northeast NC II: Beaufort, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe, Hyde, Martin, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington counties.
Northeastern Partnership: Northeast NC I and II regions combined.
Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC): Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey counties.

*** Eastern North Carolina: Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Duplin, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Pamlico, Pasquotank, Pender, Perquimans, Pitt, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Tyrrell, Washington, Wayne, and Wilson counties.
Piedmont North Carolina: Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cleveland, Davidson, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Iredell, Lee, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Moore, Orange, Person, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Rowan, Stanly, Stokes, Union, Vance, Wake, Warren, and Yadkin counties.
Western North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey counties.

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